E-business Contracts in the UK excluding London

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring E-business skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-business over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 350 390
Rank change year-on-year -5 +40 +117
DemandTrendContract jobs citing E-business 9 19 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 30
10th Percentile £531 £465 £513
25th Percentile £556 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £623
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.66% +34.59%
75th Percentile £634 £628 £645
90th Percentile £644 £638 £652
UK median daily rate £550 £551 £645
% change year-on-year -0.09% -14.65% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

E-business falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,696 15,025 19,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.15% 82.65% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 8,942 12,792
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,398 1,427 1,220
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.02 £75.00 £76.99
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +54.55%

E-business
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing E-business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for E-business in the UK excluding London

E-business
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-business.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-business

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-business in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-business in the UK excluding London

E-business
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-business.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing E-business

E-business
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-business within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +24 8 £625 +2.04% 2
North of England - 1 £600 - 2
North West - 1 £600 - 1
E-business
UK

E-business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (55.56%) Miro
2 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
2 5 (55.56%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Functional Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) E-Business Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Logistics Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Procurement Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Procurement Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Scrum
2 5 (55.56%) Contingency Planning
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Matrix Organization
2 5 (55.56%) PRINCE2
2 5 (55.56%) Waterfall
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Logistics
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Cash Management
5 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle